Dan Martell - How To Unleash Your Powerdisiac

00:00:00.640 What's your Powerdesiac?

00:00:02.720 You know, there's a great quote that's going to summarize everything I'm about to teach

00:00:05.040 you today, and it's, the energy of the mind is the essence of life, and that's from Aristotle.

00:00:11.760 You know, when I was first raising our first round of funding, I got some great advice.

00:00:15.960 One of our essentially quarterbacks for fundraising was a guy named Travis Kalanick, who's now

00:00:20.000 the CEO of Uber.

00:00:21.000 I'm not sure if you've used their service, but it's kind of awesome.

00:00:24.360 Anyways, Travis gave us a bunch of tips for going out there, meeting with investors, telling

00:00:29.640 our story, etc. But the one that I found the most interesting and probably the most impactful was

00:00:35.940 have your power song, right? I always like to call the power-deezy act, like the thing that got you

00:00:42.320 pumped up and energized. And for us, it was Numb and Encore by Linkin Park and Jay-Z. My co-founder

00:00:49.020 Ethan and I would be driving around Sand Hill Road, kind of, you know, driving his old 1997 Acura,

00:00:55.100 busting out Jay-Z and Eminem, sitting in parking lots before we met with the VCs and just get

00:01:00.760 pumped up. And I think a lot of times when you've got a sales call or you're about to hire a key

00:01:06.020 employee or you might be working on a partnership, you know, it's really good to kind of elevate your

00:01:10.360 state and get your energy level to a great spot. And that's the power DZAC. And there's three kind

00:01:15.240 of areas of your life that you can find these. For me, it's the music. It's songs. It's kind of

00:01:20.160 that tune that just reminds me how awesome life is.

00:01:23.420 For you, it could be working out.

00:01:25.660 First thing in the morning, as part of your morning ritual,

00:01:28.140 it could be kind of getting a sweat on, getting active,

00:01:30.540 getting really into it.

00:01:32.160 For a lot of people, it's CrossFit.

00:01:34.300 There's this joke that says,

00:01:35.240 how do you know somebody does CrossFit?

00:01:36.920 Well, they don't shut them up about CrossFit.

00:01:38.800 I don't know if you know anybody like that,

00:01:40.140 but for them, that's their power adisiac.

00:01:42.700 Other people, it could be talking with people,

00:01:45.360 conversations, they're extroverts,

00:01:47.620 So they get energized by those meetings.

00:01:50.440 You know, and it's really interesting just to kind of think about what are the things in my life that are high energy, right?

00:01:56.020 That really get me going to jump out of bed and really kickstart my day.

00:02:00.880 You know, the last one I want to leave you guys with is meditation or silence or taking naps.

00:02:06.460 You know, a lot of people, John D. Rockefeller, regardless how you like his politics about building that business Standard Oil or not, he took naps all the time.

00:02:14.160 A lot of great leaders are religious nappers, right? 1.00

00:02:18.180 Because they know that they're going to be going nonstop.

00:02:21.040 They need to find time to just take a nap and recharge.

00:02:24.220 And that's their power-deezy act.

00:02:26.280 So I wanted to share that with you because I know how impactful it's been for my life.

00:02:29.700 And I hope that you guys found that useful.

00:02:31.820 Leave a comment below and let me know.

00:02:33.860 If you don't have one, what's it going to be?

00:02:35.880 And if you do, what is your power-deezy act?

00:02:38.320 I want to challenge you to live a bigger life.

00:02:40.160 And I will see you next Monday.

Dan Martell - April 13, 2015

How To Unleash Your Powerdisiac

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